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[London]
[13 September 1845]
Ever dearest Miss Mitford if I have not written the details you desire to know, instantly, it has been because really I am scarcely in possession of them yet, it being undecided between this next week & the week after, on which day I am likely to sail. I will tell you however what I can .. & if it is not much, blame the stars who are shining so doubtfully just now ‘tra si e no’!
For the last two or three years I have been so much better & stronger in the summer & thrown back so hardly in the winter, that the wisdom & necessity of getting nearer the sun if I ever meant to live again, in the sense of ordinary life, was quite obvious to me. Last autumn when my brothers went to Ægypt, I was
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It is all uncertain about my companions. I hope for too many brothers & sisters perhaps & it is all unsettled. You shall hear.

[London]
[13 September 1845]
Ever dearest Miss Mitford if I have not written the details you desire to know, instantly, it has been because really I am scarcely in possession of them yet, it being undecided between this next week & the week after, on which day I am likely to sail. I will tell you however what I can .. & if it is not much, blame the stars who are shining so doubtfully just now ‘tra si e no’!
For the last two or three years I have been so much better & stronger in the summer & thrown back so hardly in the winter, that the wisdom & necessity of getting nearer the sun if I ever meant to live again, in the sense of ordinary life, was quite obvious to me. Last autumn when my brothers went to Ægypt, I was
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It is all uncertain about my companions. I hope for too many brothers & sisters perhaps & it is all unsettled. You shall hear.